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DETROIT — The Chrysler 300, once a hot-selling sedan distinguished by a tall grille and big wheels, will attempt a comeback at the Detroit auto show. It's an important car in a pivotal year for the company, which must start making money before a public stock sale can happen.
The new 300, which was revealed Monday during the show's opening media day, keeps the basic look of the old: It's a muscular car with a long hood and short back. But the remade version is sleeker, and Chrysler toned down the gangster-mobile grille and replaced its round headlamps with subtle rectangular ones. Gas mileage went up 8 percent and the interior has softer-looking surfaces and cool-blue dashboard lighting.
Chrysler wants it to attract a broad range of buyers, from those who want a larger car to those who seek high-performance luxury.
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Like the company that builds it, the 300 used to generate millions in profits but has been neglected for years. Introduced in 2004, sales peaked in 2005 at 144,000, but barely topped 37,000 last year. And just like the reborn company, the big car has the odds stacked against it. Although the new car's gas mileage went up 2 mpg on the highway with a V-6, the big car comes out at a time when experts predict that gas prices could reach $4 per gallon this year.
Chrysler lost $453 million in the first three quarters of 2010 and is the auto company most vulnerable to a gas price spike. Its top-selling models are Jeeps, pickup trucks, sport utility vehicles and vans. And despite an intense effort to update or replace 16 outdated vehicles in the past year, Chrysler still lags competitors in fuel economy. Its lineup last year got an average of 19.2 mpg, below the expected industry average of 22.5 mpg, and far below industry leader Toyota Motor Corp. at 25.4 mpg.
Even Detroit rivals who once relied on SUVs and trucks as Chrysler does, have shifted smaller. Ford has introduced the Fiesta and new Focus in the past year, both of which can get nearly 40 mpg on the freeway. Chrysler's small offerings, except the Fiat 500 minicar, are in the low 30s.
"If we are looking at $4 plus-gallon gasoline, it's got to nick their real money makers," said Joe Phillippi, president of New Jersey-based AutoTrends Consulting LLC. "They run the risk of losing sales to all other competitors that have a big stable of high fuel economy vehicles."
Still, the company is better off than it was in 2009, when it required a $12.5 billion government bailout and a quick trip through bankruptcy court to avoid liquidation. The U.S. government installed Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne to manage the company and he saved millions by sharing engineering, design and technology with Italy's Fiat. Chrysler also closed plants and slashed the work force from 80,000 in 2007 to the current 52,000.
The resulting cost reductions lowered Chrysler's break-even sales level to 2 million cars and trucks worldwide. But the company sold only 1.5 million vehicles last year, meaning it must boost sales by one-third this year just to stem the losses. It will need even higher sales to impress Wall Street with net profits.
Such a huge sales gain in one year is rare in the auto industry. Even South Korea's Hyundai, which had a banner 2010 in the U.S., could manage a mere 24 percent increase.
Some signs of progress are already evident. Engineers went through the cars and trucks, eliminating rattles, firming up suspensions and adding insulation to make them quieter. Cheap-looking plastic interiors were replaced with soft materials. Seats became more supportive. The upgrades made a huge difference for the new Jeep Grand Cherokee. Sales tripled in December from a year earlier, when Chrysler still sold the old model.
'Better stuff'
Chrysler should benefit if total auto sales in the United States rise to more than 13 million this year — as many analysts expect — from last year's 11.6 million, says Aaron Bragman, an analyst with IHS Automotive. "They have stuff that is so significantly better than what they had before," says Bragman. "It's no longer rental car specials, its significantly improved vehicles."
The redesigns are aimed at keeping the company going until newer, more efficient models with Italian technology arrive in the U.S. in the next couple of years, says Bragman.
The new 300 is to get 27 mpg on the highway, not bad for a big car but not an attractive buy when gas is expensive.
Chrysler said it will put an eight-speed automatic transmission in its all-new 300 luxury sedan that will push the big car to 30 mpg on the highway. Chrysler brand CEO Olivier Francois said the transmission will give the luxury car class-leading fuel economy. He said the mileage should help sales if gas prices rise to $4 per gallon this summer, when the eight-speed will come out.
When the current 300 came out, some called it a "baby Bentley" because of its likeness to the exclusive British cars. Its grille and big wheels were jarring to some. Others loved the sedan's 1920s gangster look and it became a status symbol in suburban neighborhoods and cities. Sales stayed strong for several years but started to slide by 2008, when gas prices jumped and the design began to look dated. Luxury car sales generally drop when gas prices go up.
The starting price is around $28,000, and it's expected to compete with Detroit sedans like the Cadillac CTS, Buick LaCrosse and Ford Taurus. But Chrysler said well-equipped versions with the V-8 Hemi engine can compete with the more expensive BMW 5-Series and Lexus LS 460.
The 300 and other Chrysler vehicles also have been wounded by quality issues. For years the company has relied on bold designs and performance to attract customers rather than reliability scores from outside groups such as Consumer Reports magazine.
Last year the Chrysler brand ranked last of 27 brands in the magazine's reliability survey, while Jeep ranked 20th and Dodge was 24th. No Chrysler vehicles scored above average in reliability.
Marchionne, whose company was given 20 percent ownership of Chrysler, has said that he'd like to repay the government loan and return to the stock market with in initial public offering late this year.
The U.S. government owns 10 percent of the company and would sell at least part of its stake to recoup more of the bailout money. A union health care trust fund owns most of the rest at 68 percent, while the Canadian government controls 2 percent.
Phillippi says Chrysler can't go to Wall Street with an IPO in late 2011 unless it makes money earlier in the year.
"If you can't post a net profit in a market that's a million units better this year than it was last year, you're going to have a really hard time selling your story to the Street," he said.
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The Film Noir Foundation, dedicated to preserving films in danger of being lost or irreparably damaged AND the organization behind the Noir City film festival, presents the third annual Noir City Xmas show on Wednesday, December 19th at San Francisco's majestic Castro Theatre! Get your tickets HERE!
The Yule-themed double bill pairs The Lady in the Lake (1947), a subjective camera adaption of Raymond Chandler's novel set during the holidays, and Holiday Affair (1949) with noir icon Robert Mitchum hot on the trail of nubile Janet Leigh.
The evening will also feature the unveiling of the full schedule for NOIR CITY 11 (1/25 - 2/3/13), the spectacular new NOIR CITY poster, and the latest Ms. NOIR CITY herself! Defying all the latest media death knells regarding repertory cinema and 35mm, NOIR CITY 11 will present its most expansive schedule yet with29 films, including three brand-new 35mm restorations funded by the Film Noir Foundation . . . and the noir lovers of San Francisco!
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HOLIDAY AFFAIR 7:30pm (1949, RKO, dir. Don Hartman. 87 min.) Big bad Bob Mitchum is on the run from one of his RKO noir thrillers when he gets a job as house dick at a department store and busts adorable Janet Leigh, who's spying for the competition. Okay, it's not noir. It's a warm and witty romantic Christmas movie minus all the sappy sentiment. Hey, a little love never killed anybody!


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Drought spurring fracking concerns
As the drought strains water supplies in historically parched South Texas, the oil and gas boom stepping up in the Eagle Ford region has added a new level of uncertainty.
With widespread pasture losses, crop failures and shortages of water in rivers, reservoirs and wells, the Carrizo and Gulf Coast aquifers, which underlie the region, already are under increased pressure to meet the needs of agriculture and cities.
Add to that the tens of thousands more wells expected to be drilled in the coming two decades, each of which requires millions of gallons of water to unlock the hydrocarbons within the shale, and the increased workforce needed to make the boom happen, and a perennial question for the region becomes even more urgent:
Is there enough water?
The answer seems to be yes, but depending on who you ask, it's a heavily qualified yes. A more accurate answer may be, it depends.
It depends on which part of the Eagle Ford shale play you're talking about, how much water will be needed, what are the supply options, and what level of activity is taking place. On top of those variables is a relative lack of regulation for water used in drilling.
The yes answer comes from geologist Darrell Brownlow, a member of the South Central Texas Regional Water Planning Group and an oil and gas industry consultant who recently completed an analysis of projected future water use in the Eagle Ford.
"I realized I didn't have any idea," he said. "I'm a Ph.D, sit on the water board, have my own well leased out and I didn't have any idea whether this was a problem or not," he said.
Brownlow's analysis used an estimate of 25,000 wells to be drilled over the next 20 years, a figure he derived from oil and gas industry investor presentations, using an average of 5 million gallons, or 15 acre-feet, to hydraulically fracture each well. An acre-foot is about 325,800 gallons.
That's an additional 375,000 acre-feet of water use over the next two decades, or an average of about 19,000 acre-feet per year.
Put another way, it's about 4.5 percent of the total current annual water use of 425,000 acre-feet in groundwater management area 13, which includes all or part of nine groundwater conservation districts, and generally covers the Eagle Ford shale.
But that annual average doesn't account for variations in geology, supply and demand.
"There is the potential for localized impacts, and some areas are going to have to focus on recycling," Brownlow said.
Most of the water used for oil and gas drilling in the Eagle Ford comes from groundwater, which is regulated by groundwater conservation districts.
Among those districts, there is less concern that drilling activities will impact the massive Carrizo-Wilcox, located above much of the oil- and gas-rich shale, than the Gulf Coast Aquifer, located to the south and east of the Carrizo.
"The Gulf Coast Aquifer is not as prolific," said Mike Mahoney, general manager of the Evergreen Underground Water Conservation District, which encompasses Frio, Atascosa, Wilson and Karnes counties.
Karnes, which is seeing a great deal of drilling activity, mostly pumps from the Gulf Coast Aquifer. Landowners there are complaining, Mahoney said, that their water well levels are dropping because of increased pumping due to the drought.
The Pecan Valley Groundwater Conservation District, which serves DeWitt County and pumps from the Gulf Coast, also is seeing water wells go dry, general manager Charlotte Krause said.
Both districts are monitoring the additional use carefully and will incorporate the increase as they plan for the future.
But groundwater districts' ability to restrain pumping for oil and gas activities is limited. State water law exempts water used for oil and gas drilling from regulation, as it does water for livestock use.
Since fracking uses exponentially more water than initial drilling, however, groundwater districts in the Eagle Ford have interpreted that exemption narrowly; they're requiring oil and gas operators to get permits for water wells used for frack jobs, and to report monthly use totals.
But the choice to allow an oil or gas company to drill for water is up to individual landowners.
Evergreen's rules allow each property owner the right to pump up to 2 acre-feet, or 650,000 gallons, a year from the Carrizo for every acre of land he or she owns. As long as the well meets the district's spacing requirements from neighboring wells and the owner reports monthly how much water is pumped out, the district can't deny a permit.
Amy Hardberger, an attorney who works on energy and water issues for the Environmental Defense Fund, would like to see reporting requirements become mandatory.
"The real issue is not whether or not it's going to impact the region, it's that no one has done the studies yet to find out," she said. "We need to empower groundwater districts. Everything needs to be metered."
Recycling an option
Oil and gas companies say they're hyper-aware of the water issue, and want to work with groundwater districts, landowners and communities to protect this scarce resource.
John Jenson, senior vice president for operations for El Paso Corp., an exploration and pipeline company, said that while his company is relying on groundwater, it would prefer not to be competing with farms and communities for water.
Instead, El Paso, like a number of other companies in the region, is looking at options, like cleaning and then using water from saline aquifers, and recycling frack water.
That's good news to Brent Halldorson, chief operating officer for Fountain Quail, a water recycling company that's just received a permit from the Railroad Commission to set up shop in the Eagle Ford.
Fountain Quail has been recycling shale gas wastewater longer than any other company in the world, said Halldorson, including the past seven years in the Barnett shale.
The Eagle Ford, he said, "is an area crying out for water management, from sourcing new water to fracking wells. Municipal effluent, brackish water, even ocean water from the Gulf will all play a part."
The company initially will send two mobile water purification treatment centers to Kenedy, where they'll be able to recycle up to 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons) of wastewater a day.
Halldorson said the company turns that wastewater into two products, fresh water, plus concentrated but clean salt water, known in the industry as "heavy brine."
"We can turn one liability into two assets," he said.
The scarcity of water in certain parts of the Eagle Ford makes the prospect of water recycling more economically viable, Halldorson said — and mobile units reduce costs even further, since transporting water is a big part of its cost.
Diane Savage, who represents Wilson County on the Evergreen Board, is watching the rapid rise in permit requests from oil and gas companies with some trepidation. Having worked for the oil industry in the past, she said she understands the business, and believes companies want to be environmentally conscious.
But she's concerned that as the boom takes off, mistakes and mishaps will happen.
"There's a lot of people doing a lot of things and everyone is driving about 80 mph as far as I can tell," she said. "Hopefully, people will be careful with the aquifer, because that's what people have to drink."
Staff Writer Colin McDonald contributed to this report.


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- 1940 - Voice actor Richard O'Callaghan is born.
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- Faramir takes Frodo and Sam to Henneth Annûn. He learns about Frodo carrying the One Ring but does not try to take it.
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Gloriosky! This is good news.March 24 (UPI) -- Mystery Science Theater 3000 cast members will return to television for a National Geographic channel special.The show first aired in 1988 and quickly gained a cult following. The series features a man and his robot friends who are stuck in space and forced to watch bad films as part of a psychological experiment. The group provide a running commentary on the movies in order to stay sane.Created and first hosted by Joel Hodgson, and later hosted by writer Mike Nelson, each MST3K episode could feature an average of around 700 jokes in later years.Mystery Science Theater 3000 ran for eleven seasons, and aired its last episode in 1999.The series will make a return to television for a new TV special, Total Riff-Off, with former cast members Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett, who continue riffing movies through their project RiffTrax.Murphy was the second puppeteer and voice behind the robot Tom Servo during the series, and Corbett voiced the robot Crow during the show's later seasons.Total Riff-Off will consist of three hour-long episodes, in which the trio will resume their banter and joking commentary as they are "forced" to watch classic clips from National Geographic programs. Honey Badgers, Man v. Monster, and Swamp Men are among the NatGeo shows to be lampooned.Total Riff-Off's first episode will debut at 8 p.m. ET on the National Geographic channel on April 1, in recognition of April Fool's Day.http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/20...7/?spt=tsb&or=2
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Coarse debate: 'Defense' of marriage wrecks contracts
On July 1, a new Virginia law, "The Affirmation of Marriage Act," took effect banning same-sex unions, domestic partnerships, and similar arrangements granted by other states. It was passed to expand an existing ban on gay marriage. However, the wording of the law is so broad that it threatens to nullify private wills, medical directives, and other private contracts entered into by same-sex couples.
This legislation is the most legally restrictive in the nation. It declares, "A civil union, partnership contract or other arrangement between persons of the same sex purporting to bestow the privileges of marriage is prohibited. Any such civil union, partnership contract, or other arrangement entered into by persons of the same sex in another state or jurisdiction shall be void in all respects in Virginia, and any contractual rights created thereby shall be void and unenforceable."
Although more than two-thirds of the members of the Virginia House and Senate voted for the bill (officially referred to as HB751), Governor Mark Warner moved to strike the vaguest parts, including the words "partnership contract or other arrangement." But his recommendation was rejected by a vote of 35 to 65 in the House. Insulated in a final vote by a two-thirds majority, the bill passed into law without the Governor's signature.
Supporters of the law insist that it will have no effect on advance medical directives, power-of-attorney filings, hospital visitation rights, health-insurance coverage, or wills, as feared by gay-rights advocates and legal scholars. Delegate D. A. Coyle claimed, "If I believed that this bill changed Virginia's law with respect to any of these privileges, I would have voted against it."
But one wonders why the law was passed in the first place. Several scholars noted that, without the additional "partnership contract" language, it would have been redundant or simply unnecessary. Marriages and civil unions are already prohibited by a 1997 law, but the text of that law referred only to same-sex marriage. It did not cover the range of new options being made available to same-sex couples in other states. The innovation of the new law is the "partnership contract" language.
And that tells us something important about its intent.
Delegate Robert G. Marshall of Manassas, who has a long record of anti-gay statements and votes, sponsored the bill. As recently as January of this year, he proposed legislation to deem any judge who ruled against Virginia's earlier defense of marriage act "unfit" or "guilty of malfeasance in office." Offending judges would have been subject to impeachment and removal from the bench. Fortunately, the proposed bill was defeated in committee.
While not every delegate who voted for HB751 shares Marshall's extreme agenda, most supported the bill in response to the Massachusetts Supreme Court's recent decision to allow gay marriage. They were justifiably concerned about having a matter of public policy imposed on them. But, in the process, they should have shown greater regard for the rights of their own citizens.
Even a principled opponent of same-sex marriage and civil unions should be able to see that this new law unfairly denies the right of individuals to enter into contracts and agreements with one another, rights protected by both the Virginia and U.S. constitutions.
These contracts, while made in private, have public benefits. They order decisions about property, guardianship, and in some cases even life– decisions that should not rest with the state. To rob same-sex couples of the ability to arrange their own affairs, the state denies them their dignity and autonomy as individuals.
Ironically, by passing this overly broad law, the Virginia General Assembly has set itself up for the same judicial challenges that it sought to avoid. Equality Virginia, a gay-rights group, is already planning to file a lawsuit. The litigation will inevitably cost the Commonwealth millions of dollars. And one website, virginiaisforhaters.org, is already advocating a boycott by out-of-state visitors.
But perhaps the greater toll will be the further coarsening of the political discourse. Conservatives will resent the intervention of "activist" judges, and gay-rights advocates will resent the use of political means to short-circuit legitimate debate about controversial subjects. In the end, little will be gained, except perhaps an excess of defensiveness and self-righteousness on both sides.
Could the acrimony and the injustice of the current law have been avoided by a simple compromise on its wording? Without a doubt.
Ward Brown studied English as a UVA graduate student and is a freelance writer living in northern Virginia.


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When you first download and install the MinGW Java compiler (gcc-java), you may find that when you try to compile a Java program with gcj, you get an error saying "cannot find -liconv". This is because gcj automatically attempts to link your program with libiconv, which is not distributed with MinGW and must be downloaded and installed separately. To get your Java program to compile, download libiconv from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libiconv.htm. You want "Binaries" and "Developer files". Unzip both downloaded files to your MinGW directory.
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If you read my last blog post, you learned just how much a cow looks like a guitar and vice versa...
So who knew just how much fun it would be to bring the Rubes Cow Guitar to the World Dairy Expo? And who knew how many very talented guitarists would be attending the Expo? Well, we found out when during the course of the Expo we were treated to a variety of rock, country, jazz, blues and more. WISC-TV (CBS) even popped by and did a very fun interview featuring Cow Guitar, which you can see here: Rubes Cartoons' Creator Visits World Dairy Expo In Madison. And The Country Today published a terrific feature article on the guitar as well: Moosic-Man cow guitar to make debut at World Dairy Expo.
So you are probably assuming that yours truly enjoys picking out a tune or two now and again, right? Well, the sad truth is that my musical ability (or lack thereof) is positively pitiful. My wife and three sons are all "musical" and my brother is a professional musician, but I am afraid that the only musical talents I possess are paying for music lessons...and of course, playing air guitar.
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The World Heritage Centre, with the support from the Flanders Government, has embarked on the development a comprehensive and integrated information system on the state of conservation of World Heritage properties. This information is now public and hosted on the World Heritage Centre's website. This public tool has a multi-criteria search form in order to extract specific data according to users' needs.
Throughout the year, the World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies (ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN) review a considerable amount of information on the state of conservation of World Heritage sites. In a number of cases, reporting to the World Heritage Committee is required on the state of conservation of specific World Heritage sites under threat ("reactive monitoring"). On the basis of these state of conservation (SOC) reports, the World Heritage Committee decides, in consultation with the State Party concerned, whether additional measures are required to protect the property, whether it warrants inscription on the List of World Heritage in Danger, or whether it has deteriorated to the extent that it has lost those characteristics which determined its inscription on the World Heritage List.
In the 40 years since the adoption of the Convention, thousands of such SOC reports have been prepared by the UNESCO Secretariat and the Advisory Bodies, which represents an exceptional and extensive amount of documentation on various conservation issues. It is one of the most comprehensive monitoring systems of any of the international conventions, involving a global network of nearly 1 000 sites.
In addition to its main purpose in terms of monitoring the state of conservation of properties, this new tool also highly contributes to the institutional memory of the World Heritage Convention and facilitates well-informed and consistent decision-making.
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Theoretical Nanoelectronics (PGI-2/IAS-3)
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The development of advanced 21st century applications increasingly profits from a basic quantum mechanical understanding of material properties. To this end, we have developed a computer code (KKRnano) based on a Green-function formulation of the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method which requires computing times that scale linearly with the number of atoms in the system [1] and thus overcome the unfavourable, higher scaling in normal density functional calculations.
KKRnano enables us to treat systems with many thousands of atoms with up to more than a million parallel tasks. [2] The calculations can be made very precisely, because the Green function can be determined virtually exactly if non-local angular projection potentials are utilized and if the total-energy functional is evaluated appropriately. [3]
[1] A. Thiess, R. Zeller, M. Bolten, P. H. Dederichs, and S. Blügel, Phys. Rev. B 85, 235103 (2012)
[2] High-Q Club JUQUEEN
[3] R. Zeller, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 25, 105505 (2013) and 27, 306301 (2015).
In a systematic study of the exchange interactions in realistic models of Gd-doped GaN containing nitrogen or oxygen interstitials or Ga vacancies, we found that only Ga vacancies provide a robust path to magnetic percolated clusters which can explain the experimentally observed ferromagnetism with colossal magnetic moments per Gd atom in extremely dilute samples.
A. Thiess, P. H. Dederichs, R. Zeller, S. Blügel, and W. R. L. Lambrecht, Phys. Rev. B 86, 180401 (2012).
A. Thiess, S. Blügel, P. H. Dederichs, R. Zeller, and W. R. L. Lambrecht, Phys. Rev. B 92, 104418 (2015).
We investigated the role of vacancies on the experimentally observed metal-insulator transition and found that vacancy clusters lead to localized electronic states in the insulating phase. [1]
We also investigated the effects of doping with transition metal atoms and found that ferromagnetic states occur for V and Cr doping with Curie temperatures approaching room temperature for large Cr concentrations of 15%. [2]
[1] W. Zhang, A. Thiess, P. Zalden, R. Zeller, P. H. Dederichs, J-Y. Raty, M. Wuttig, S. Blügel, and R. Mazzarello, Nat. Mater. 11, 952 (2012).
[2] T. Fukushima, H. Katayama-Yoshida, K. Sato, H. Fujii, E. Rabel, R. Zeller, P. H. Dederichs, W. Zhang, R. Mazzarello, Phys. Rev. B 90, 144417 (2014).


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Innovation and strategy games rarely go together. The Pikmins and Advance Wars of the world only come around every five or 10 years. In between those major franchise-starters, strategy fans are left to roam the gaming world in search of something great to play.
Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love could have been that game. In fact, it had the potential be more than filler; it had a real shot at creating a new kind of strategic entertainment.
That shot is seriously damaged – though not completely ruined – by the game Sakura Wars wants to be versus the game it should be. It wants to tell a story fit for a romantic comedy: lots of girls, one heroic guy, and the added ability to persuade the lovely ladies in that guy's direction.
When you're not covering your ears trying to avoid one of the lengthiest and most boring storylines ever conceived for a game, Sakura Wars becomes the game it should be. At this time, you will be engaged in battles that are deep, compelling, and challenging. But those battles only make up a very small portion of the game. The majority of your time will be spent in chat mode, which effectively turns Sakura Wars into a storybook adventure that contains more trivial bits of dialogue than a Twitter feed.
Though I'd love to start this review by covering the battles, it would be a tad misleading to do so. After all, Sakura Wars physically forces the player to endure several minutes (20? 30? I lost count) of ludicrous dialogue before the first battle is even introduced. That battle is only a tutorial of things to come, so you only get to control one character even though there are several available. Throughout the battle, the silly dialogue continues. If f you don't want to pay attention, you could miss important details regarding how to control the various mobile suits. When the battle ends, you'll be sent right back into chatterbox mode, where the characters talk about nothing and expect the player to participate with the hope of earning the affection of a lovely anime lady.
While this is a decent premise for a game, the execution is depressingly flawed. The voice-overs are as bad as what the characters are saying; if you can think of the worst anime you have ever watched, Sakura Wars is probably worse. The characters get excited by minor things that, in reality, couldn't even excite a prepubescent child. And then, after all that, the game adds the torturous task of having to run through the city and check various locations (the park, a coffee shop, a hotel, etc.) to see if it triggers the next chapter in the story. In most cases, these silly runarounds are used to kill time within the in-game clock, which will eventually point you in the right direction. But before then, it's nothing but nonsensical monotony.
Sakura Wars attempts to pull players into the story by using conversational gimmicks. The first and most common requires you to select one of three possible responses; pick the best one and you'll charm the ladies – pick the worst and you'll turn them off.
Another involves pushing the analog sticks in various directions (quarter-circles, half-circles, full circles, up/down, etc.), all designed to impress the ladies. No matter what, however, it doesn't seem to matter if you feverishly fight to reach the goal or leisurely sit back and let yourself lose because the game still continues. There aren't any noticeable consequences for merely doing the best you could – or in truth, the best you felt like.
Despite the gorgeous anime-inspired designs of the female characters, no one in this game is physically or emotionally unique. Every single character is trapped within a cliché: a sweet girl, a tough girl, a curvy girl who's ditzy, and so on. The lead character is so childish and annoying that he actually makes Cory from Boy Meets World seem cool. In every circumstance, no matter what you do, the characters' chatter never rises above the level of cheesy, thrown-together dialogue that will make you wish you could skip every single atrocious scene.
You can't, however. You can't skip any part of it, nor can you skip the long battle animations, presumably because Sakura Wars wants the player to pay attention to the story. It's that silly development desire that will kill the experience for most players, because the part they're going to enjoy the most is the part they're going to experience the least.
During the game's brief but cherished combat scenarios, players will take control of several different mobile suits. The whole event is turn-based, and every suit is controlled individually from a close third-person perspective. This leads to inevitable camera problems that should have been ironed out. But by the second battle, you won't be thinking about them. You'll be too busy planning your next attack.
Sakura Wars is clever in its use of movement and attack limitations, which prevent any mobile suit (yours or your enemy's) from performing too many actions in one turn. This is guided by an attack/movement bar that rests on the bottom of the screen. The bar is divided into chunks; attack once or walk a few feet in any direction and one chunk will be eliminated. Perform a combo (five hits) and the bar will be substantially reduced (by one chunk for every hit).
This may sound like a very simple system – maybe even a cheap one. But it is insanely addictive. If you've ever played through the awful portions of a game just to get to the good stuff, then you know exactly what to expect from Sakura Wars. It might actually make you want to endure the never-ending story just to experience the battles.
However, there is great concern players may never get to that point. You'll have to suffer through more than an hour of painful storytelling before the first really good battle is introduced. For many, that will be one hour too long, regardless of the rewards at stake. And for those who can endure that first painful hour, what's going to happen when chat mode returns? Will they be prepared for the rest?


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When a deadly symbiote invasion devastates the streets of New York City, only Spider-Man can seize control and bring salvation to the city. From the game's direction to Spider-Man's destiny,Spider-Man™: Web of Shadows puts control in the gamer's hands.
Gamers decide when to switch between the agile Red Suit and formidable Black Suit, whether to ally with Marvel's honored heroes or ferocious villains, which of Spider-Man's abilities to upgrade and what missions to undertake in order to protect Manhattan from certain annihilation.


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Rally for a final say
Originally published by UK Liberal Democrats
Within hours of Theresa May speaking to Parliament about the deal she negotiated, hundreds of Lib Dems gathered on Parliament Square to make clear they opposed it.
For over two years now Liberal Democrats have led the fight to give people the final say on the Brexit deal in a People's Vote, with the option to remain in the EU. And Thursday was a big day. It was the day that turned a People's Vote from a possibility into a probability.
It was the day that turned a People's Vote from a possibility into a probability.
What happened in Parliament was remarkable. The Prime Minister came to the Commons with her proposals, but she found virtually no support. 50 MPs spoke, asking her questions, but only 7 supported what she is proposing.
Meanwhile, she admitted that if her plans fail, there are two options: "no deal", which would be a catastrophe, or "No Brexit". This is now the crucial argument for us to win.
The Government can no longer frame the debate as about Theresa May's deal or "no deal". Instead, "No Brexit" is on the table. Europe is planning for "no Brexit". We should be planning for it too.
The Government can no longer frame the debate as about Theresa May's deal or no deal
Polling now shows a substantial majority in the country for Remain. That means we need to keep going. We need to work on MPs across the parties, so that when this bad deal comes back to Parliament, we can get a majority of MPs behind a People's Vote. And then we have to turn a substantial Remain majority in the country into an overwhelming majority.
Our movement is on the march: with your help, we will win an Exit from Brexit.


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Should glass carry warnings stating " the value of your investments can go up and down"
Where is the production data.
sellers taking modern production and selling it as old
Who can say that the modern product (say 1995 production) is not the same as the old product (1961), and why does it matter?
Why manufacturers should provide info, and who for, is also a complex issue. Obviously commercial issues are a factor, but to expect manufacturers to supply info, merely to assist the policing of a secondary market-place, suggests a level of corporate responsibility, that arguably is un-necessary, and paternalistic in the extreme.
combined with manufacturers who should, in this information age, provide such information on-line
I suppose it could also be seen as a symbol of the aesthetic of silicon body sculpture.
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Late last year, government lawyers overseeing Microsoft's antitrust compliance told the judge in the case that they had received a complaint about Windows Vista, but they didn't disclose who had made it. In this March filing, they updated the court on where the complaint stood:
At the last status conference, Plaintiffs reported that they had just received a middleware-related complaint. Since then, Plaintiffs have been investigating this complaint, including obtaining significant additional information from Microsoft and the complainant. Plaintiffs have not yet completed their investigation, but expect to do so by the time of the next Joint Status Report.
Again, there was no word of who had lodged the complaint. But as it turns out, it was Google, according to this New York Times story, published on the paper's Web site today. The issue: The built-in desktop search tool in Windows Vista, which Google says is causing problems for users of the Google Desktop Search program. From the New York Times story:
Google complained to federal and state prosecutors that consumers who try to use its search tool for computer hard drives on Vista were frustrated because Vista has a competing desktop search program that cannot be turned off. When the Google and Vista search programs are run simultaneously on a computer, their indexing programs slow the operating system considerably, Google contended. As a result, Google said that Vista violated Microsoft's 2002 antitrust settlement, which prohibits Microsoft from designing operating systems that limit the choices of consumers.
Google has asked the court overseeing the antitrust decree to order Microsoft to redesign Vista to enable users to turn off its built-in desktop search program so that competing programs could function better, officials said.
The U.S. Justice Department decided not to pursue Google's complaint, but some states are preparing to take action, according to the New York Times story.
A Microsoft spokesman, Jack Evans, said via phone this afternoon that Microsoft is working with state and federal officials to resolve the issue, but he added that Microsoft specifically designed the Windows Vista desktop search tool to avoid these kinds of issues by scaling back its indexing when other programs are running. Prior to Windows Vista's release, state and federal antitrust officials closely reviewed the new operating system, including the desktop search tool, and didn't raise concerns about the feature, he said.
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August 2: Intentionally Give A Stranger Misleading Directions Day
- 456 - Maurading Mongol hoardes are repeatedly given misleading directions, resulting in wide swaths of carnage being cut through unsuspecting and largely unpopulated regions of central Europe.
- 1877 - When asked for directions by a stranger, Oscar Wilde, then at the height of his wit, searingly suggested that the stranger seek directions from his own mother.
- 1922 - Allen Zeitgeist asks for directions to New York from Boston. Told to "turn left where the large tree used to be" the series of events that followed causes the stock mareket crash and the great depression.
- 1939 - Tomasz Wankovszki, a Ukrainian farmer, accidentally starts World War II by sending the German army into Poland, telling them that it is actually a shortcut to Czechoslovakia.
- 1939 - (12:22pm) Hitler refuses to order troops to stop at gas station and ask for directions; Warsaw and Krakow invaded by accident.
- 1993 - The shocking discrepancy between male and female drivers who ask for directions is highlighted in a study by Cambridge professor Dr. Gerry von Coppenfeels.


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Another level of Dungeon Master is behind me. As some of you predicted, it was a bit more difficult than Level 2, although images like the one above were mercifully rare. There were more "puzzles" on this level involving hidden switches, pressure plates, secret doors, and teleporters. The only one that really taxed me involved a door on the other side of a pit. The solution was to cast an "open" spell on the door, then throw an item into the darkness beyond it. The item landed on a pressure plate, closing the pit. It took me a while because I had overlooked the fact that I had a scroll with the "open" spell on it.
Long ago, in a woefully overlooked posting, I waxed about the magic systems in different games. My thesis was that while combat and such tend to be familiar from game to game, magic systems are characterized by several dimensions: how you acquire spells, the limits on the spells you can cast, how you regenerate your spell powers, how you access your spells, how the spells are divided by category or class, and so on. From Ultima V's reagent-and-syllable based system to Dungeons & Dragons scribe-and-memorize method to The Elder Scrolls' skill-and-mana model, every game seems to feature a slightly different spell system.
Dungeon Master is no exception, and its spell system is even more unusual than most. First, any character can cast any spell, provided he or she has the requisite spell power. The neat thing about the game is that you don't define your characters as "fighters" or "wizards" at the outset; rather, your characters become fighters or wizards (or both) depending on whether they cast spells. This confused me at first, but it's essentially just an early version of the skill-based system that The Elder Scrolls games use. In Morrowind, for instance, you can define your character as a "knight" at the beginning of the game, but that doesn't stop you from channeling your efforts into arcane or priestly spells and becoming an archmage by the end of the game. So one of my characters, Hawk, started out as a fighter, but eventually has developed basic priest levels by repeatedly mixing potions.
To cast a spell, you have to string together a valid set of runes in a special section of the screen (where the cursor is in the image above). The first rune indicates the power of the spell (and thus how many magic points it requires); the rest specify the spell. Theoretically, I guess, you could cast every spell in the game right from the beginning, but the problem is, you don't know what they are. Only by finding scrolls with messages like "Cast VI BRO to cure poison" do you acquire this knowledge. So far, I've found light, healing (the spell requires a flask and creates a potion; I don't know if there's a non-potion healing spell, too), cure poison, poison, something that "weakens nonmaterial beings," stamina, and open door.
Offensive spells are going to be a bit of a problem, I can tell. Because combat is in real time, and it's hard to remember what symbol corresponds with what rune, it takes me 10 seconds or so to string together each spell. That's too long to be standing around getting pummeled by monsters. The game lets you prepare spells ahead of time and "hold" them in the spell box, so the only offensive spells I've used are ones that I've put together before I approach the monsters. Then I let the spells fly and try to finish off the combat the old fashioned way.
Each rune you add to the spell box (each syllable you speak, in the game's parlance) costs a little bit of mana. If you make a mistake, you can backspace and delete the syllable, but you don't get the mana back. I don't know for sure if you gain skill points by simply speaking the syllables or if you actually have to cast a valid spell. If the latter, I'm not sure if my ninja character, Leyla, will ever gain any spellcaster levels, as she doesn't have enough mana to cast even the most basic spells.
So that's the magic system. Let me cover some of the other miscellaneous things I discovered during my Level 3 gameplay:
- I found a compass in a secret area on the level, well after I had completed most of the map in the wrong orientation. While it's nice to know where north is, the compass doesn't tell you your relative position in the map, so it's utility is somewhat limited. I suppose it will help a little on spinners, which I encountered on this level. I'm not a fan of spinners.
- Unless I'm missing something (I probably am), there's no way to know the names of monsters I'm fighting. It makes it hard to describe them. On this level, I faced mummies (that was obvious from the bandages), some kind of blue goblin-looking monsters, and these insidious creatures that looked like piles of debris from a distance. They were hard to kill but slow, so I could back off and toss all of my missile weapons at them.
- In the upper-right corner of the game screen, you see the formation of the characters. The color-coding on the little pictures corresponds with the colors in each character's status bar on the top. Being color-blind, I can't really tell the difference, but memorizing the positions of four characters isn't a big problem. Only the two characters in the front of the formation can attack with melee weapons, but I can swap who's in front and who's in back at any time. What I noticed tonight is that monsters adhere to this 4 x 4 formation, too. Check the screen shot above, and note that the monsters aren't using the left slots. This means that if Leyla tosses a missile weapon right now, it will sail harmlessly down the hallway.
- The game is relatively slow to give up its treasures. Each level has only a few caches of treasure, and rarely do I find a weapon or armor that seems better than what I already own. I say "seems better," but it's actually hard to tell, as the game doesn't tell me the damage done by weapons or the protection afforded by armor. (Is a sabre better than a falchion? How does a leather jerkin compare to an Elven doublet?) This is one of only two major complaints I have about the game.
- My second complaint has to do with secret doors. From what I can tell so far, there are two types: those activated by hidden switches, and those that I just walk through. The switch ones are cool. I have to watch carefully for changes in the pattern on walls and make sure I don't miss them, but this is a perfectly valid gameplay element. The ones that I walk through, on the other hand, are a pain in the ass. Since my characters take damage from just walking into walls, it's impractical to bump into every wall to see if there's a secret door behind. It would be too time consuming even if I didn't take any damage. But there's functionally no other way to find them. I found one on Level 3, but I'm guessing I probably missed others on this and previous levels.
- My rules about saving and reloading make the game a bit time-consuming. Every time a character dies (provided the whole party doesn't die), I have to haul his or bones to a resurrection altar, then return to the place of death to pick up his or her equipment. There was an altar on Level 1 and another on Level 3, so I hope they continue to keep coming every other level. Adhering to my rules does make combat a bit suspenseful, as I have a lot of incentive not to die.
- Sometimes, I'm finding, the best thing to do is run from combat and regroup at a safe distance, drinking some healing potions, preparing some spells, and lining up missile weapons. This keeps me spatially aware more than most games: I need to know the best path of retreat.
- Encumbrance matters. The more weight my characters carry, the slower I move through the dungeon. This became a problem in one section of Level 3 in which I had to press a button that opened a secret door, then race down the corridor before the door closed. It was several frustrated attempts before I realized I needed to abandon some of my stuff so I could run faster.
- I haven't figured out yet if monsters respawn. If they do, they do slowly.
- I realized just tonight that there's no economy in this game. The characters don't have a cache of gold pieces, and there's no place to buy or sell weapons and armor. I have found a few stray coins, but these are solutions to puzzles, not something I can use at shops.
In case it's not obvious from my coverage, Dungeon Master is a pretty awesome game. It's potential for ruining my life over the next couple of weeks is nontrivial. In my first post for this blog, I told the story of how I nearly gave up CRPGs for good:
My wife went out of town for a three-day business meeting, and I had planned to use the time to finish editing a book that I'd promised to the publisher a couple of weeks prior. The first morning, I worked maybe an hour on it before deciding to take a break for a "little" bit of Oblivion. 72 hours later, when my wife returned, I had done essentially nothing else.
Well, here we are, a year later, and my wife is out of town for another three-day meeting--for the same purpose as last year--and I have the same sort of major work project overdue. If you see another posting about Dungeon Master on this blog before Sunday night, I expect you all to yell at me.


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Reid's Accomplishment
Including a Fannie Med with a "state opt‐out" provision in the Senate Democrats' health care bill accomplishes only this: it helps Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) survive as majority leader by appeasing his left wing. It doesn't make it any more (or less) likely that Fannie Med will survive.
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In "Graph Theory As I Have Known It", p.12, Knights Errant, Tutte mentions as an aside the chess question " does either Black or White have a certain win from the initial position, given perfect play by both sides".
Is there any literature on that possibility of a Black win, that is the possibility of the initial chess position being mutual zugzwang? What is the earliest reference to the question?


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The agenda of death and the devaluation of life marches on; apparently Europe has become a hotbed for its evil...
First and most important - I am sorry about your dog. It always hurts and never gets any easier to deal with.I can't see your scenario happening though. Three reasons:1 - protecting children is so ingrained in our culture that anyone who attempted this would be a bloody smear on the road. There is a reason the pro-death lot insist that a fetus is a blob of cells instead of a person.2 - it would be economic suicide. Without them, no one is safe. To put it brutally and bluntly, they grow, work and pay for your pension. Their stupid risk taking provides a steady supply of organs for transplants, leading to longer lives over all.3 - the most important one. All innovation is done by the young, including the ones that tend to be labelled as dysfunctional. A society that takes out the young and the curious is a dead society. It just hasn't started stinking yet.
I would hazard that these suicidal trends in American progressive thought are fully mirrored in Western European thought and therefore that the risks you point to are also underplayed and underappreciated amongst the Western European power/political elite.
Oddly - we have a counterweight. One that is somewhat unexpected, but welcome.Eastern Europeans. They are so solidly family oriented, it will take generations for the left to shift them. To give you one concrete example. I was walking down the street. It is about 90% rentals and about 90% Eastern European. Young kid fell over and skinned their knee while I were passing - sort of age where you have to guess the sex because it doesn't mean much. Nothing, right? By the time I had him/her out of the street there were roughly 20 people watching me. Coming up to check and look out for the kid.
My point? There are a plethora of people running around these days who do not care about kids, who don't care about what happens to them. Maybe the biggest group are politicians. Think about it. If kids could vote do you think the government would treat them with the real indifference they do? I started teaching in 1972 and have seen the indifference grow. These are not the people I want making decisions of life and death about anyone I know.
Always were. Abusive and neglectful a**holes are nothing new - just read Dickens for proof. 150 years ago and you could pretty much apply his observations to right now. That neither excuses it or makes it right. I am not 100% sold on the indifference growing. I think it is more that we see it more, hear of it more and tolerate it less because it is no longer something which happens behind closed doors and is kept silent about.To politicians, children are props and excuses, not future producers and voters.
When an educational file came in on a new resident we jokingly could tell by the pounds per square inch just how bad the abuse had been. Each year the files got larger and the students younger. I once had a 3rd grader who had memorized entire scenes from Freddie Kruger movies. Was this kid psychotic? Is a shark's butt watertight? What is released to the public and what we saw are two entirely different things. Over those years I saw the kids coming with more and more of an entitlement mentality, popping kids to get more welfare was a good plan for them, and more violent. The kids of today seem to have little plan for the future except what "might" happen to them, are largely inept socially because of all the electronic toys, and an education means little to most of them. Here I am not talking just about kids in a residential facility but kids in general. Kids who had never heard of Pearl Harbor, who the president was, what the three branches of government were, etc. I was on a trip with some other teachers one time, and I knew the teacher next to me taught at a significant university, at least part time. She was grading English papers so I asked if I could read some. I was stunned and amazed. I asked what year these kids were in and she said seniors. I said H.S. students write this poorly? Then she hit me between the eyes when she said no, they were college seniors. No, things are not getting better in these areas and core curriculum isn't going to help.
How many kids are the result of a night of pleasure or an additional 100 bucks on a welfare check? There were kids in my day and I'm 52 that parents didn't really care too much about.
I spent the last 22 years of my working life teaching children 8-21 in residential facilities for abused, neglected, and abandoned youth. They were, raped, beaten, sodomized, burned, prostituted, forced to live on the street, took drugs and alcohol, and more. They were murderers, rapists, arsonists, attachment disordered, schizophrenic, sociopathic, emotionally disturbed, and many others. Many were highly intelligent, creative, and had real potential to do good things but I would never trust them to make a good decision about someone else's life, nor would I trust their parents as their decision making was already on display in front of me.My first year at a residential unit, 1998, I had a student who was attending the regular High School in general ed. and was headed on the college though she had been assessed in elementary school as being mentally impaired. It seems the assessor didn't see the scar tissue on her arm that kept her from fully extending her arm; her father used to punish her by pouring boiling water on her in place that could not be seen with a long sleeve shirt on. On her last day we were talking and she said, "Scott, I'm one of the lucky one's because I was found. But there are a whole lot of kids at the high schools that need to be here (at the residential facility) a lot worse than I do."My point? There are a plethora of people running around these days who do not care about kids, who don't care about what happens to them. Maybe the biggest group are politicians. Think about it. If kids could vote do you think the government would treat them with the real indifference they do? I started teaching in 1972 and have seen the indifference grow. These are not the people I want making decisions of life and death about anyone I know. Who is to say the person who could discover a cure for cancer hasn't already been aborted or wouldn't be if 'after birth' abortions or selective euthanasia were practiced. Who is to say the next Abraham Lincoln hasn't or wouldn't receive the same fate? Thomas Edison graduated from the 2nd grade but today would be at odds with society and government, maybe even in jail. To trust the life of anyone to government bureaucrats is to destroy the country.
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"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
—H.L. Menken
Everyone, it seems, has a solution for the energy and environmental problems our global civilization must confront in the next two decades. Build more windmills. Grow corn to produce ethanol. Construct more nuclear plants. Clean up coal. Drill baby drill. Tap ultra-deep subsea petroleum and gas. Sequester carbon. Hydraulically fracture shale to recover natural gas. Reduce consumption. And so on. The stakes are high. Our agricultural and food distribution systems alone are huge consumers of energy that we rely on to support a world population that will soon exceed 7 billion.
As I thought about the word solutions and the specific ones that have been proposed for our energy and environmental problems, I realized that some interest groups propose solutions that they certainly know cannot work, while others propose solutions that are well intentioned but simply wrong, and still others propose solutions that solve their own problem, but create a bigger one for someone else. Why aren't there words that we commonly use to identify and classify these wrong or simplistic solutions? If such words were in common parlance, we might more clearly identify the losers and choose the ones that will actually work.
When we think about information, we use several prefixes to qualify the root meaning. Misinformation typically refers to false, inaccurate, or incorrect information resulting from an error in comprehension or interpretation. Disinformation refers to intentionally misleading information, often in the form of propaganda. We use the same prefixes for other words, like functional. Dysfunction refers to something that does not function, and misfunction means cease to function or malfunction. Why don't we make similar use of the prefixes dys– and mis– for the word solution?
Here, I propose that we add the words dyssolution and missolution to our lexicon. (The word dissolution is well established, of course, so I use dyssolution instead.) We might use these words analogously to the way we use the words disinformation and misinformation. A dyssolution would be a solution known by its proponent not to be valid, but that is introduced for another motive, often to deliberately mislead or for propaganda or financial purposes. A missolution would be a false solution, in essence, a bad idea that will not work or a solution that falls well short of the mark. And, finally, a malsolution would be a solution that is very imperfect and might solve a problem in one place but create another one someplace else.
Several years ago, oil baron T. Boone Pickens, appropriately concerned about declining US oil production, proposed to construct a wind farm in West Texas to generate electricity that could be transmitted back to population centers in the eastern part of the state. The project appeared to be a missolution from the outset. Although a promising plan in theory, it failed for two reasons: the existing electrical grid is inadequate to transmit the electricity produced, and the wind does not blow during the peak demand summer season.
I consider the production of ethanol from corn to be the archetypical example of a dyssolution and a colossal policy failure. Ecologists think about primary energy sources in terms of their ability to produce "net energy yield" (NEY) or to maximize "energy return on energy investment" (EROI), the ratio of the energy yield of a process to the energy used directly and indirectly to drive that process. Corn ethanol is at best break-even from a NEY perspective and would have too low an EROI to constitute more than a small bite for the gargantuan US annual 100-quad energy appetite. Yet with bipartisan support, several successive Congresses and executive branch administrations have established a minimum ethanol quota for fuel and have lavishly subsidized agriculture to grow corn for ethanol. Using corn for fuel is also a malsolution, given the specter of global food and grain shortages, and the fact that nutrient-rich runoff from corn fields makes its way down the Mississippi River to create hypoxia in Louisiana coastal waters.
So, what energy solutions make sense? First, we must diversify. No one single source will provide the energy that our modern, technological society requires. Second, we must educate our citizenry better about energy and its environmental effects. People seem to think that gas is something that comes from a pump, and they have little real knowledge of the chain of events that gets it there. The concepts NEY and EROI need to be understood by our politicians, and we need to do a better job of informing them. Most importantly, we must make energy conservation a national focus, for this will at least buy us time. Although we have made considerable improvements in energy efficiency since the 1970s, we have a great opportunity to do much more by controlling our yearning for big cars and big houses and by researching exciting new technology to extend efficiency gains.
Perhaps the Japanese nuclear power crisis will reinvigorate national discussion about the energy problem. That notwithstanding, the first step to addressing our energy problem is recognizing its gravity and immediacy. Next, we need more solutions to this rapidly escalating challenge and fewer missolutions, dyssolutions, and malsolutions.


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Everything was going well until I decided to update to the 12.10 release. I don't know what happened, but after I updated my Ubuntu, it stopped working, it didn't even launched, when I turned on my PC and choose to run "Ubuntu 12.04" on the Grub Screen, a weird messaged appeared.
Well, so I decided to install the Ubuntu 12.10 and forget about the 12.04 partition, no problem.
I erased the partitions used for the Ubuntu 12.04 with EaseUS partition Manager.
However, when I start my PC, there is still the option of "Ubuntu 12.04" to chose, is that bad?
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The arts and cultural festival meant to complement the competitive sports competition in next year's Winter Olympics has unveiled its first group of top Canadian and international performers, groups and artists.
The electic cross-section is meant to appeal to a broad audience. It includes a play inspired by the writing of Edgar Allan Poe, the world premiere of new dances by Marie Chouinard and Crystal Pite, a return performance of the Kronos Quartet and Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq, dancing by Alberta Ballet to Joni Mitchell songs, and NiX, a love story set in a theatre of ice that includes a flaming tuba.
"With the incredible wealth of talent and outstanding value these shows have to offer, we expect them to sell out and encourage people to go online now and get their tickets," David Guscott, executive vice-president, celebrations and partnerships for Vanoc, said in a statement. "This is just the first instalment of the hundreds of artists who will participate next year as part of the Cultural Olympiad 2010 lineup.
"In the coming months, we'll add even more projects to our program with the support of the Government of Canada and the home provinces and territories of the performers."
The third and final Cultural Olympiad festival starts next Jan. 22 and runs through the Olympic and Paralympic Games until concluding on March 21.
By the time it's finished, Metro Vancouverites and visitors will have a chance to see more than more than 600 ticketed and free performances and exhibitions in 50 venues in the region and the Sea to Sky corridor.
Further announcements will be coming during the next few months on the entire lineup for Cultural Olympiad 2010. Tickets are now on sale at www.vancouver2010.com/culturalolympiad.
The 20 projects announced Tuesday include works by Robert Lepage, Alberta Ballet, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan. The third and final edition of the Cultural Olympiad festivals will start next Jan. 22 and run throughout the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games concluding on March 21. The extensive program will include more than 600 ticketed and free performances and exhibitions in 50 venues in Metro Vancouver and B.C.'s Sea to Sky corridor.
Seven of the 20 projects have been commissioned by Vanoc or co-commissioned with Arts Partners in Creative Development.
The first 20 projects of Cultural Olympiad 2010, featuring dancers, musicians, playwrights and visual artists, are:
• The Blue Dragon/Le Dragon Bleu — Robert Lepage
Quebec's Robert Lepage continues his internationally celebrated imaginative and innovative stagecraft with this sequel to his acclaimed series The Dragons' Trilogy, set in modern China. Co-commissioned by the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.
• Moon Water — Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
Lauded worldwide for its innovation and grace, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan's Moon Water is a contemporary exploration of Tai Chi Tao Yin movement, an ancient Chi Kung exercise, set to Bach's Six Suites for Solo Cello. It will be the troupe's first performance in Vancouver since 1997.
• NiX
Canada's first theatre of ice and snow comes to Lost Lake in Whistler. NiX follows an arsonist through the fireworks at the end of the world. It features a flaming tuba, snowman death scene and an explosive love story. Commissioned by Arts Partners in Creative Development.
• Nunavut — Kronos Quartet featuring Tanya Tagaq
Performed by Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet and featuring Inuit vocalist Tanya Tagaq, the centrepiece of Nunavut is Tundra Songs — a new work by Canadian composer Derek Charke that paints a mesmerizing Arctic soundscape.
• Michael Lin: A Modest Veil
Taipei-based artist Michael Lin will create a massive mural covering the Vancouver Art Gallery's northern facade using the patterns and exuberant colours found in traditional Taiwanese fabric designs and decorative art. It will mark the first presentation of his work in Canada.
• Where the Blood Mixes — Playhouse Theatre Company
Emerging Canadian playwright Kevin Loring goes beneath the surface of the aboriginal residential school system and celebrates its survivors. Co-commissioned by Arts Partners in Creative Development.
• Joni Mitchell's The Fiddle and The Drum — Alberta Ballet
This extended, full-length collaboration production of the dazzling ballet features four additional Joni Mitchell songs, illuminated by her latest artwork and the choreography of Alberta Ballet's artistic director Jean Grand Maître. Commissioned by the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad. Tickets on sale soon.
• Laurie Anderson: Two Sided Plays
Renowned multimedia artist Laurie Anderson will premiere her newest work, a compelling series of 10 two-character plays in which Anderson plays both roles defined through the use of audio and visual effects and set design. Co-commissioned by the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.
• Nevermore — Catalyst Theatre
Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, the great master of the macabre, this whimsical, chilling musical fairy tale by Edmonton's Catalyst Theatre reveals the psychology of a man whose haunting writings continue to resonate.
• Compagnie Marie Chouinard: World Premiere
This newly-commissioned group piece by Canada's reigning queen of contemporary dance is based on the notion of time recaptured. For the first time, Marie Chouinard will create an accompanying vocal score. Co-commissioned by the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.
• Nixon in China — Vancouver Opera
Vancouver Opera presents the Canadian premiere — and a new production — of John Adams's modern masterpiece about U.S. President Richard Nixon's historic 1972 visit to China. Canadian coloratura soprano Tracey Dahl, as Madame Mao, joins opera greats Robert Orth as Nixon and Alan Woodrow as Mao Tse-tung under the musical leadership of Maestro John DeMain who led the 1987 premiere of the opera.
• Rain — Cirque Éloize
Montreal's Cirque Éloize brings the wonder of childhood to vivid life in this circus arts performance. The company expresses its innovative nature by combining circus arts with music, dance and theatre.
• Mahler Symphony No. 8: Symphony of a Thousand — Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Maestro Bramwell Tovey and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra will give a rare live performance of Mahler's monumental masterpiece, featuring hundreds of musicians, eight vocal soloists and three choirs, including soprano Measha Brueggergosman, the Vancouver Bach Choir and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir.
• Beyond Eden — Theatre Calgary
Written by Bruce Ruddell and starring John Mann, this spellbinding new rock musical was inspired by Wilson Duff and Bill Reid's 1957 groundbreaking and controversial expedition to Haida Gwaii. Beyond Eden will have its world premiere during Cultural Olympiad 2010.
• Elephant Wake — Globe Theatre
Globe Theatre's production digs deep into the pain and anger of a man trying to come to terms with his own marginalized existence and the struggle to keep his culture, family and town relevant in Saskatchewan. Tickets on sale June 15.
• Fear of Flight — Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland
This music and movement spectacle tracks 14 nervous passengers on a bumpy transcontinental flight. The production by Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland combines monologues, choral text and movement — all performed by an ensemble of singing travellers. Tickets on sale June 15.
• Tear the Curtain! — Electric Company Theatre
Murder, mayhem and movies take centre stage in this stylish new thriller from Vancouver's innovative Electric Company Theatre. Inspired by the true history of the Stanley Theatre, which opened as a movie house in 1930, this multimedia spectacle offers a new twist to the classic whodunit.
• Kidd Pivot: Dark Matters
Created by Kidd Pivot artistic director Crystal Pite, this new work brings together six dancers for an exploration of human significance in the wake of catastrophe and planetary frailty. Co-commissioned by Arts Partners in Creative Development.
• Juste pour Rire 2010
Three evenings of fun and laughter with la crème de la crème of Canada's francophone comedians, the hottest emerging and internationally acclaimed artists on the scene today. Co-presented by Le Centre Culturel Francophone de Vancouver and the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad. Tickets on sale Sept. 1.
• Martha Wainwright and Jorane: Chanteuses modernes
Powerfully raw singer/songwriter Martha Wainwright and award-winning singer/cellist Jorane, known for her unique "cello rock," weave their musical spell in an evening of songs. Tickets on sale June 12.


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